I could just SCREAM! Wait a sec...I did!!!

[cb977]

Well, the first 'chid I touched this morning at 9am was my Paph Odette's Spell. This was the first paph I bought and I've been watching it closely it for a few months, since I found a bud

I noticed it was drooping a bit this morning and decided to tie it a little higher on it's stake. BAD DECISION!!!
I snapped the bud right off

Thankfully, it was early and nobody with tender ears was around because there was a very loud rant using some words I invented as I went along!!!

I still can't believe one second I was thrilled and the next I was holding this beautiful bud in my hand

Hubby keeps telling me to look at all the other ones but that just ain't cutting it

I think I feel the need to buy a new 'chid

[Toddybear]

Oh Sue, I hate it when that happens...and it has happened to me. I had a Cymbidium that took 3 years to spike. Finally it did and was up about 12" high when my Dad leaned over the plant to look out the window and snapped the entire spike off! Some new curse words were developed that day as well!

[justatypn]

Oh pooh, I hate when that happens...I know when my Paph. 'Lady Isabel' Moquettsanum bloomed I was so thrilled a few days later unbeknown to me, 2 of the three blooms just dropped, so fluent in the french words kept escaping. The meanest is that we wait so long for our paph's to show " a happy enviroment" we always want the best results. Keeping fingers crossed that your next bloom will be a double even though it might be a single bloom grower.

[Barbara]

Sue, that's just awful, those paph stems are just too fragile! I have broken a few flowers off my orchids too, and it sure doesn't feel very nice.

[smartie2000]

I did the same thing recently on a paph bloom. Those stems don't flex very well.
And my broken bloom stem wasn't even long enough to use for anything other than a corsage, and no one want a corsage...such a waste I might as well have cut it off and entered it as floral arrangement for the coming OSA show. Anyways its a wilted flower now

[Gin]

If you need some new words I will e them to you . I have invented quite a few over the years .
Sorry about the Paph. bud , seems it is always the ones we wait the longest for . Gin

[Ross]

Originally Posted by Gin

If you need some new words I will e them to you . Gin

I could use some I've used up all mine and it gets repetitious using the same ones over and over I've broken spikes, left my collection out on the deck during a hail storm which slaughtered all the Phals except one Keiki, I've watered and overwatered when I souldn't - then gone the other extreme. I've given up (in the past ) with orchids entirely and went over to cactus - what a disaster that was! I think I've committed all the orchid sins there are, but I feel for ya, because none of this makes you feel any better I know. There's always next year - you'll be a bit smarter now, right

[cb977]

Originally Posted by Gin

If you need some new words I will e them to you . I have invented quite a few over the years .
Sorry about the Paph. bud , seems it is always the ones we wait the longest for . Gin

Isn't it amazing how a person can create an entirely new vocabulary in a heartbeat? I came up with a few doozies today but the tirade, as always, started with one loud resounding...

[gerneveyn]

I'm sorry for you loss, but on the bright side the plant is still healthy. From the title of the thread, I expected a major catastrophe. I've done similar things. With good intentions and the idea that I would just help the plants a little, I actually caused them some minor injuries.

[Tindomul]

Freak! Oh man, I've been hearing about this one since first day of Chat. I feel for you Sue. I recently broke of a entire Phal. Baldan's Keleidoscope spike right after I bought from Home Depot. But it was nice enough to rebloom for me within two months. I don't think yours will be doing that, so Im doubly sorry. Well, maybe next year it will have so much pent up bloom energy that it will bloom earlier, longer, and brighter!